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New Hampshire's law requiring abortion practitioners to notify the parents of a teenager seeking an abortion 48 hours before it can be done was put into law in 2003 and has been in the court system ever since, under a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the law. With a Democratically-controlled legislature in New Hampshire now, opponents of the parental notification law are hoping that the time is right to have it repealed and have filed legislation to do so. We'll look at the parental notification Law, the arguments for and against it and what might happen with the repeal in the new session. Laura's guests are Republican State Representative Liz Hager of Concord, prime sponsor of the legislation to repeal the law and Phyllis Woods, former Republican State Representative from Dover and sponsor of the original parental notification legislation.